George Berkeley and Early Modern Philosophy

Stephen H. Daniel is Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has written five books, edited three others (two of which are on Berkeley), and published more than sixty articles on 17th- and 18th-century philosophy and on current continental theory. He has received numerous teaching awards, given presentations throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, and from 2006 to 2016 was president of the International Berkeley Society. He is also an avid kayaker and author of Texas Whitewater.

• Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: How Berkeley's Works Are Interpreted 1: Berkeley's Stoic Notion of Spiritual Substances 2: The Ramist Context of Berkeley's Philosophy 3: Berkeley, Suárez, and the Esse-Existere Distinction 4: Berkeley on Representation 5: Berkeley and Descartes on Mind 6: Berkeley and Hobbes 7: Berkeley and Arnauld on Ideas 8: Berkeley and Spinoza 9: Berkeley's Christian Neoplatonism and Malebranchean Divine Ideas 10: Berkeley and Malebranche on Human Freedom 11: Berkeley and Locke's Substance-Person Distinction 12: Berkeley's Appropriation of Bayle's Constitutive Skepticism 13: The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition 14: Berkeley on God 15: Berkeley's Pantheistic Discourse 16: Berkeley on God's Knowledge of Pain 17: Berkeley, Browne, and Collins: The Rejection of Divine Analogy 18: Berkeley, Edwards, and Ramist Logic Appendix 1: Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the 'Black List Hypothesis': A Dialogue Appendix 2: How Berkeley Redefines Substance: A Reply to My Critics Bibliography Index

The text is commendable for its attempt to shed light on Berkeley's engagement with thinkers and traditions that tend to fall outside the canon of early modern philosophy (such as Stoicism, Ramism, and "noncanonical" thinkers like Jonathan Edwards, Anthony Collins, and Peter Browne) and its attempt to place Berkeley's lesser-known works, such as De Motu and Siris, on a par with his best-known texts.